Unbandaged Eyes, Unmanacled Hands [microform] : Reflections of Revolt through the Pen of the Black Playwright / Winona L. Fletcher
- Bib ID:
- 5257947
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Fletcher, Winona L
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED093006
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1974
- 14 p.
- Summary:
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An analysis of the works of black playwrights since 1821 (the date of the earliest recorded play) reflects the Afro-American's concern with social revolution and his commitment to revolt. Early forms of protest in black drama revealed the desire to become active members of American society. Following a void in black playwrighting during the reconstruction period of the late nineteenth century, black intellectual rebellion was expressed in the 1930s, experienced a hiatus during the 1940s, and revived seriously in the late 1950s with Lorraine Hansberry's "Raisin in the Sun." Black drama during the 1960s exploded with plays of social protest aimed at the many characteristics of a sick society, then gave way by the end of the decade to concern with blacks themselves--self-determinism. Black revolutionary theater has progressed from disruption by white rowdies to the possibility that revolution in black theater may soon be out-dated. (JM)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Speech Communication Association (Richmond, Virginia, April, 1974).
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Speeches/Meeting Papers
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- ERIC
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